Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-14
A BUSY DAY.
President Cleveland In
spects Kansas City.
HE Is FAVORABLY IMPRESSED.
A LaudatOry Address Concerning
the Young Mems Christian
Association.
HE Is FAVORABLY IMPRESSED
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

ASSOcldUlOll.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HEKALD
KANSAS CITY, October 13.-The
demonstration in Kansas City in
honor of President Cleveland is
tumultuous and noisy proceeding, but
is attended with no more disorder
than seems inevitable whenever the
President appears. The Exposition
had called great number of stran-
gers, but the advent of the President
has hardly left standing room in town.
mot SETTLED YET"
"You must excuse our appearance"
said lady to Mrs. Cleveland, eve
have only just moved in and have not
got settled yet" The expression was
better understood as the visitors were
escorted through the streets in car
riages this morning. The many beau
tiful palatial residences with signs of
the enormous commerce were obser-
want on every hand. The Presidents
conductors pointed out the features
which appeared.
A SHORTAGE OF VEHICLES.
There were only carriages enough
to carry the visitors and an escort
committee of eleven gentlemen, who
were provided, and these were pre-
ceded and followed by small but
efficient corps of cavalry. The party
set out from the hotel amid the cheers
of the multitude, and made its way
rapidly through the western portion
of the town, without stopping until
they reached the highest altitude in
the city.
AN IMPOSING SIGHT.
Immediately beneath stretched five
or six square miles of railroad yards,
and as the Presidents carriage made
its appearance ON the brow of the
hill, each locomotive of all the fifteen
roads centering here opened its throat
and screamed.
A FOUNDATION STONE LAID.
Returning, brief pause was made
at the Exposition building, and from
this point the party proceeded to the
site of the projected new Y. M. G. A.
building, OF which the President laid
the cornerstone. The ceremony was
preceded by singing hymns and a
briet address and prayer by Bishop
Hendrix.
THE PRESIDENTS REMARKS
fC1lnu-o
'In the busy activities of our daily
life, we are apt to neglect the instru-
mentalities which are quietly but effect
ually doing the most important service
in moulding our national character.
| Among these and challenging but
little notice compared with their valu-
able results are the Young Mems
Christian Associations scattered
throughout our country. All viii adj
init the supreme Importance of that
honest and fixed principle which rests
upon Christian motives and purposes
| and all will acknowledge the sad and
INCREASING TEMPTATIONS
Which beset our young men and lead
them to destruction. These associa-
tions have entered the field of
Christian effort and are pushing their
noble work. When it is considered
that the subjects of their efforts are to
be active men for good or evil in the
next generation merely worldly pru-
dence dictates that these associations
should be aided and encouraged.
Their increase and flourishing condi-
ton reflects
THE HIGHEST HONOR
upon the good men who have devoted
themselves to this work, and it dem
onstrates that the American people
are not entirely lacking in the appre-
citation of their value. am especial
ly pleased to be able to participate to-
day in laying the cornerstone of an
other of these edifces in this live
and growing city and l trust that the
encouragement of the Young Mems
Christian Association located here
may be commemorated in keeping
with the generosity and intelligence
which characterizes the people OF
Kansas City"
FORMALLY WELCOMED.
In the afternoon the President and
Mrs. Cleveland were escorted through
the business streets of the city to the
Government building, where they
arrived about o'clock. They were
escorted out upon the front portico,
where a stand had been erected.
There was a crowd of fully $4,000 peo-
pie. Mayor Kumpf made a formal
speech of welcome, to which the
President replied at some length. He
spoke of the wonderful growth, pros
peritv and enterprise of Kansas City,
and quoted statistics and made COM
PARSONS which he thought indicated
substantial prosperity.
| EVENING ENTERTAINMENT.
This evening at 6 o'clock, the Presi-
dent. Mrs. Cleveland and party were
entertained at dinner by the reception
committee and several other promin-
ent citizens with their wives. The
festivities closed tonight with pa
geant of the priests Of the palace, and
their subsequent ball. The magnifi-
cent pageant was reviewed by the
President from the balcony of the
hotel
DEPARTURE FOR MEMPHIS.
Before 10 O'Clock the party quietly
proceeded to their train, and by ii
were on their way to Memphis. .
KINDLY ACT.
Mrs. Cleveland is held in warm re-
membrance by the patients of the City
Hospital, who were benefciaries of
thoughtful act of kindness on her
part. The flowers which filled the
car on its arrival here and all those re-
ceived in this city, making a large
wagon load, were by her direction
sent to the hospital for the benefit Of
the patients.